Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the "oligarchy," arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans.
… Saying a word resonates better isn’t the same as saying someone is too stupid to understand it.
She wasn’t talking about who to push back against, but about messaging. “Stand up to oligarchs” doesn’t have the same impact as “stand up to would-be kings”. We sort of have a national history of opposition to kings, so it touches on some more foundational themes that mesh well with a push for constitutional order.
It’s not an academic paper. Your speech doesn’t get points deducted for using the wrong word for a domineering political ruler.
Have you just decided to be angry, and if you have to pivot from anger that “she’s pro-oligarchy” to anger that “she’s falsely implying that the oligarchy believes they rule by divine right”, so be it?
… Saying a word resonates better isn’t the same as saying someone is too stupid to understand it.
She wasn’t talking about who to push back against, but about messaging. “Stand up to oligarchs” doesn’t have the same impact as “stand up to would-be kings”. We sort of have a national history of opposition to kings, so it touches on some more foundational themes that mesh well with a push for constitutional order.
It’s not an academic paper. Your speech doesn’t get points deducted for using the wrong word for a domineering political ruler.
Have you just decided to be angry, and if you have to pivot from anger that “she’s pro-oligarchy” to anger that “she’s falsely implying that the oligarchy believes they rule by divine right”, so be it?